Big & Rich’s Hillbilly Jedi includes their latest hit “That’s Why I Pray”
and a track featuring Bon Jovi titled “Born Again.” It’s the duo’s first studio album since Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace in 2007.

Yoakam’s 3 Pears is his first album of all-new material in seven years. He recorded part of the project in Beck’s home studio in California. The collection includes “It’s Never Alright,” a song written with Pistol Annies‘ Ashley Monroe.

Other new releases include Texas country-rock band Atteberry Station’s Nights at Spillman Ranch, Portland, Ore., ensemble Black Prairie’s A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart, Jim Byrnes’ country-blues covers album I Hear the Wind in the Wires, bluegrass-inspired the Coal Porters’ Find the One and Texas country star Bart Crow’s Dandelion. Various roots artists also pay tribute to a longtime songwriting hero on Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe.